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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
Robert Henri
Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
Robert Henri
In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
Robert Henri
The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
Robert Henri
I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
Robert Henri
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
Robert Henri
I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
Robert Henri
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
Robert Henri
The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
Robert Henri
Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
Robert Henri
Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
Robert Henri
Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
Robert Henri
The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
Robert Henri
Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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